Highland Colour
by Claudio Bacinello
Title
Highland Colour
Artist
Claudio Bacinello
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Photograph
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Colourful buildings add a whimsical flair to the landscape of John o'Groats in the Scottish Highlands.
John o' Groats (Taigh Iain Ghròt in Scottish Gaelic) is a village in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is often called "The start of Great Britain" as John o' Groats is on the northeastern tip of Scotland. Part of the historical county of Caithness, John o' Groats is popular with tourists because it is one end of the longest distance between two inhabited points on the island of Great Britain, being on the north east end, with Land's End being the other end, 876 miles to the south west. It is not quite the most northerly point on the island of Great Britain because nearby Dunnet Head is further north.
The town takes its name from Jan de Groote, a Dutchman who obtained a grant for the ferry from the Scottish mainland to Orkney, recently acquired from Norway, from James IV, King of Scots, in 1496. The lower case and apostrophe in "John o' Groats" are regarded by many as correct, as the "o'" means "of" and thus is not cognate with Irish names that begin with O',
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